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Generation of intense circularly polarized attosecond light bursts from relativistic laser plasmas
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- We have investigated the polarization of attosecond light bursts generated by nanobunches of electrons from relativistic few-cycle laser pulse interaction with the surface of overdense plasmas. Particle-in-cell simulation shows that the polarization state of the generated attosecond burst depends on the incident-pulse polarization, duration, carrier envelope phase, as well as the plasma scale length. Through laser and plasma parameter control, without compromise of generation efficiency, a linearly polarized laser pulse with azimuth $\theta^i=10^\circ$ can generate an elliptically polarized attosecond burst with azimuth $|\theta^r_{\rm atto}|\approx61^\circ$ and ellipticity $\sigma^r_{\rm atto}\approx0.27$; while an elliptically polarized laser pulse with $\sigma^i\approx0.36$ can generate an almost circularly polarized attosecond burst with $\sigma^r_{\rm atto}\approx0.95$. The results propose a new way to a table-top circularly polarized XUV source as a probe with attosecond scale time resolution for many advanced applications.
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
Physics - Plasma Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1601.06870
- Document Type :
- Working Paper